The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close humanity is to self-destruction, due to nuclear weapons and climate change. The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ...

climate change, infectious diseases, and unregulated advancements in artificial intelligence. The Doomsday Clock is a metaphorical representation of how close humanity is to self-destruction.

When a new time is set on the clock, people listen, she said. At the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland in 2021, then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson cited the Doomsday Clock when ...

The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic design created in 1947 ... The clock takes into account the threat of nuclear war, climate change, and global health, per The Washington Post.

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The Doomsday Clock’s hands inch forward, now frozen at 89 seconds to midnight — the closest they have ever been to global catastrophe. A mere second separates us from ...

Trump. In 2017, the science and security board moved the minute hand of the doomsday clock to 11:57:30, and saddled Trump with much of the blame. They again cited nuclear proliferation and climate ...

“This year’s Doomsday Clock statement makes clear that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine undermined global norms and institutions, increased nuclear risk, and reduced the ability to mitigate runaway ...